His heart was pounding so hard he was sure she had to be able to hear it. Nancy shook her head. ‘What I felt when I saw you wasn’t anything like w...at I felt when I was with you five years ago,’ she whispered. ‘When I saw you today, I realized if felt different.’ Ben looked into her lovely eyes, not quite sure how to read them. ‘How…how is it different now?’ he asked. Was she going to tell him she didn’t feel the same way about him any more? ‘What I feel now…’ Nancy said softly, ‘…it…it is far. Adutha naal mama kulaiyal araikul sendraar naanum avar pine sendren, kathavai thazpal podamal ulle sendraar. Naanum avar pine sendren, mama kulika avarathu mel aadaiyai matum kayati irunthar.Lungi aninthu irunthaar, ennal avar sunniyai parka mudiya villai, mama ennai paarthathum urainthu poi vitar. Naan ulle kathavai thiranthu avarai paarthu kondu irukiren, pinbu sorry mama endru solinen. Avar sari ma endru solli irunthaar.Mathiya nerathil thaan mami asanthu thungi viduvaal appozhuthu mama udan. ‘It frightened you because you could almost understand what the Seeker was saying. Your own memories of your earlier life are close enough to the surface of your consciousness that you could hear the meanings behind the words uttered by your sister and fellow shipmate.’‘Okay, now! Stop that!’ Annalisa exclaimed. ‘You’re scaring me worse than Elaine is!’‘That’s because your memories are coming back, Child, ‘ the Praetor told her. ‘They began to re-emerge when you first laid eyes on your lost. She complained that her family had about disowned her and only called when they remembered they still had a mother. She would sometimes get a card on Mother's day and maybe a call on Christmas. She said she would adopt us as her son and granddaughter, and we could adopt her as Kelly's grandma. I told her that we had already decided that matter several years ago. She would always be Mom to me, and grandma to Kelly.From then on our houses never felt empty. There was love in each home. Where we.